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; again perhaps in a preface; a third time in an analytical form through means of a table of contents; after all this skirmishing he brings up his h

successful in producing humorous indexes, and others have seen their way to make an author ridiculous by satir

nd indexes in general, we found them presenting us a variety of pleasant memories and contrasts. We thought of those to the Spectator, which we used to look at so often at school, for the sake of choosing a paper to abridge. We thought of the index to the Pantheon of Fabulous Histories of the Heathen Gods, which we used to look at oftener. W

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a man's being better pleased with other writers than with himself. Our index seemed the poorest and most second-hand in the world after theirs: but let any one read theirs, and then call an index a dry thing if he can. As there 'is a soul of goodness in things evil' so there is a soul of humour in things dry, and in things dry by profession. Lawyers know this, as well as index-makers, or they would

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Boyle the clever volume with which they thought to annihilate the great D

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some of our greatest writers, but all is to be traced to Bentley's de

s ever written down except by himself, and quotes what the historian wrote after perhaps his tenth perusal of Bishop Monk's life of the great critic:

m completely. Bentley's Dissertation upon the Epistles of Phalaris, with an answer to the objections of the Hon. C. Boyle, Esq., first appeared in 1699. De Quincey described it as one of the three mo

Sicilian towns, &c., were in those letters called by names that did not arise until that prince had been dead for centuries. Manufactures were mentioned that were of much later invention. As handle

ee-Masons (De Quincey's

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uct. He wrote to Boyle: "In laying the design of the book, in writing above half of it, in reviewing [revising] a great part of the rest, in transcribing the whole and attending the press, half a year of my life went away. What I promised myself from hence was that some service would be done to your reputation, and that you would think so. In the first of these I was not mistaken-in the latter I am. When you were abroad, sir, the highest you could preva

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reat Bentley. His Journey to London is a very ingenious parody of Dr. Martin Lister's Journe

he Transactioneer (1700) and Useful Transactions in Philosophy (1708-1709) were very galling to the distinguished naturalist, and annoyed the Royal Society, whose Philosophical Transactions were unmercifully laughed at. To both the tracts referred to were prefixed satirical tables

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because it had the effect of balking a distinguished political character

among the non-jurors. In 1692 he published "Remarks in the Grande Tour of France and Italy, lately performed by a Person of quality. London. Printed by E. H. for Tho. Basset at the George in Fleet Street,

epresent during the remainder of his life. In 1702 he published another volume of travels: "Several Years' Travels

Remarks, with the addition of a satirical index, as an electioneering squib. This reprint appeared as "Remarks in the Grand Tour ... performed by a Person of Quality in the year 1691. The second edition to which is added a table of the principa

s index was drawn up by Robert Harley, Earl of Oxford; but this was probably only a party rumour. Dr

to be Speaker of the House of Commons, in the Parliament, that met Oct. 25 1705. When notwithstanding the Whigs and Court joining to keep me out of the chair, and the greatest violence towards the Members, turning out some, and threatening others, to influence their votes, I had the honour (and I shall ever esteem it a

tions trifling or impertinent, an allowance was due for my being very young, when they were made. But the performances of others, not entitled to

t great value upon the book. He added a note

it to be sold after my death, and to become a subject of contemptuous gossip, or an instrument of party annoyance, I think it a proper act of respect and kindness for the Bromley family, for me to put it in possessio

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ated. Even the family were little likely to mind the public seeing a political s

to his house was asked if he had seen Mr. Bromley's Travels; and when the answer was in the negative, Harley at once

r. Parr infers that the book is not misrepresented, but there can be little doubt t

he other side of Rochester bridge, though c

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h is plain and decent, and the city appears well peopled. When I left it and passed th

some further entri

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shore, lies on the coast, p. 2." [The

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, that from them alone an Englishman will be satisfied he is out

less room than sixteen o

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the Old Testament are in the uppermost reaching round the room and are sixteen. Those of the new are under them, but being only

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iece of information, because the Jews were obliged to wear these hats in other parts of Italy, and it was the knowledge o

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one consisted in bringing to light and insisting upon the author's political attitude when he referr

those of King Charles the Second and his Queen, King James t

en should occupy so important a public office as Speaker of the House of Common

nsequent on the trial of Sacheverell he was in 1710 chosen Speaker without opposition. T